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Ha! Thank you! I’ve been around, but I just haven’t updated my profile. I have caught some, however I definitely missed your candidate for Song of the Summer 🥺
So please post it here!

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and the fact that people have literally no place to go, consider the fact that there are 2.9 million people in this province who are disabled, a number which, over the past 7 years has increased from 2.1 and consider that, in that time, there are FEWER people with a family doctor, not more.

I implore you to get involved with your riding’s other candidates and at least look at their policies. Vote your conscience.
This election, reflect on the food banks (which also didn’t get mentioned), think about the rate of homelessness (234,000)

If they don’t shut him down EVERY chance they get, every opportunity, every time he opens his idiotic mouth, he WILL win again, likely with a majority which WILL end lives and derail a fragile economy.

4) I was elated to hear the plans laid out by the other leaders. Again, it was refreshing to see them target their rage at Ford and not at each other, but there is much more for them to do.

when he gets home from an int’l trip, after he’s been on international tv, when he’s mocked the disabled, when he’s made an abhorrent allegation abt the impoverished, when he plants an insidious seed abt incarceration, when he Lies. About. Jobs. And. The. Environment. When he tries to buy votes.

They let Ford talk the way he always talks which panders to the working class, igniting it to line up under his flag of false promises. Maybe he was baiting them & they didn’t bite- they NEEDED to bite, they needed to expose, deny, persuade, derail, invalidate & fact check all he ever says-

They didn’t rebut, they didn’t talk about their own policies, they didn’t talk about Indigeneity and colonialism, with that being said, NOBODY talked about Indigeneity and colonialism AT ALL, they also didn’t talk about the environmental impacts.

3) Ford kept talking about the Ring of Fire. They were in Northern Ontario, he was talking about Jobs in Northern Ontario, he had a friend with deep roots at the debate platform and lots of their own friends present so he was well supported and the other three didn’t pick up on that AT ALL.

The deregulation of these systems does NOT mean we are “cutting red tape”, it means we are cutting corners which means we leave people behind. What’s ACTUALLY needed is a finessed bureaucracy which makes the system more accessible, accountable and efficient.

Voters are not idiots and we deserve to have a say in how the revenue into which we pay is spent.
Paperwork is not supposed to complicate, it’s meant to create transparency.

2) tax was overstated as though Ontarians are stupid. We’re not. Don’t insult us.
I believe that, while taxation is a topic which needs discussing & clarity, the time for talk abt taxes raised or lowered is over. The discussions for who, what & how they’re used are the real conversations needed.

OW didn’t get discussed and Basic Income didn’t even get an honourable mention.
They did discuss housing and homelessness, along with addressing addiction and mental health, however the only real policy laid out was really citing housing.

1) there was very little focus on social services. ODSP was mentioned ONCE and only by Bonnie Crombie. She mentioned, in passing while highlighting her litany of policies that she’s excited to get underway, that she’ll double ODSP, but at no point did the Greens or the NDP at all even float past it.

I was particularly pleased to see that the leaders of the NDP, Liberal and Green parties not taking shots at each other, but rather targeting their energy at the intolerable inadequacies of Ford’s leadership.
Here are my critiques: